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Biotech / Medical : THOR-Thoratec Corporation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TraderXx who wrote (4)	10/18/2008 11:07:12 AM
From: robert b furman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8

Hi Sharck and TraderXx, Very surprised this wonderful stock has been so inactive on this thread. IT HAS BEEN A LOOONG EIGHT YEARS !! In hopes of finding others who can provide a sense of long term management and their philosophy towards stock holders I came here to inquire. biz.yahoo.com Thor has been valiantly fighting to not break down from a poorly timed gap up breakout - The result of an excellent earmings announcement last quarter Q2 2008. Incredibly the robust performance was brought about by the FDA's approval of HeartMate II in April(the first of which was referenced in the farsighted header of some 8 years ago!! If Thor's growth can be fueled by adding and training more heart centers to utilize their devices and blood test,it does stand a reasonable chance of having meteoric growth much like that of Intuitive Surgical and their Da Vinci robot. stockcharts.com That is perhaps a strecth but then again -if they have a life saver - Doctors will embrace it and make much off of it. At this point in time Thor is the strongest breakout leader in the market place that I can find. This brutal bear has been historic. Historic bear markets punish those stocks that have gone from strong hands to weak hands - Isrg case in point. Historic bears also give us rotation into new leaders and I believe the medical sector is destinned to provide leadership as we rotate away from the long in the tooth, energy,industrial product, and natural resource stocks. I read daily the IBD newspaper and have followed Thor for about 6 months. It is just now beginning to be mentioned by IBD - this is great exposure for the stock. Last but not least it has recently announce the successful conversion rights of its senior subordinated convertible notes. When the original investors take their loans and convert it into stock it IS NOT BECAUSE THE STOCK IS GOING TO COLLAPSE. Rather it is a sign that the insiders know how fast the growth of this company will be and they want much more than an interest payment for a pay off. In this market i trulu believe Thoratec is destinned to become a 4-6 bagger and a new leader. I hope this thread can come back to life. Certainly this stock is doiing all of the right things and as a first up and out of the bear market collapse of 2008 - we all need a poster child for successful trading. I dub thee "Canary" for this bear market's demise and a renewed bull market in at least afew well run highly profitable and growing stocks. Bob